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ICANN Officers and Board Member Statements of Interest Summary relating to ICANN matters (in alphabetical order)¹

27 February 2025

Officers:

  1. Xavier Calvez – SVP, Planning and Chief Financial Officer: Nothing Identified.
  2. John Jeffery - General Counsel and Secretary: Nothing Identified.
  3. Kurt Erik "Kurtis" Lindqvist – President and Chief Executive Officer: Director: Owner of Internet Technology Advisors. (Also listed as a Board member below.)
  4. Theresa Swinehart – SVP, Global Domains and Strategy – Nothing Identified.

Board Members:

  1. Catherine Adeya – Independent Non-Executive Director: UH Kenya (AI Advisory).
  2. Alan Barrett – Director: Nothing identified.
  3. Maarten Botterman – Director: Director of GNKS Consult BV; consultant for Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE).
  4. Chris Buckridge – Director: Owner of Buckridge Consultants, independent consulting entity working with clients including the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and Oxford Information Labs (OXIL); previous Advisor to the Managing Director, RIPE NCC (contract concluded on 31 October 2023); Board member of EuroDIG Association.
  5. J. Beckwith (Becky) Burr – Director: Partner at the law firm HWG, LLC, specializing in privacy and data protection law and which provides advice to some multi-national clients that have applied for new gTLDs during 2012 round or may apply in future rounds or are ICANN contracted parties, but the advice is not in any way related to new gTLD applications or ICANN; member of usTLD Stakeholder Council.
  6. Nicolas Caballero – GAC Liaison: ICT Advisor, MITIC Paraguay (ICT Ministry); GAC Representative, Paraguay; President of CEILAC Paraguay; Board Member of Internet Society Paraguay.
  7. Christopher Chapman – Director: Nothing identified.
  8. Sarah Deutsch – Director: Director for Electronic Frontier Foundation; on Internet Committee of International Trademark Association; a sole practitioner attorney working part time re: on IP and Internet liability issue for clients that may operate new gTLDs but has not been involved in those clients' gTLD issues; Director of Edgemoor Research Institute.
  9. James Galvin – SSAC Liaison: Director, Strategic Relationships for Identity Digital, Inc., the parent of registry operators of numerous TLDs that are under contract with ICANN, and which acquired his former employer, Afilias USA, in late 2020; actively engaged in technical standards development in the Internet Engineering Task Force; Akram Atallah (former ICANN executive and current CEO of Donuts/Identity Digital) and Ram Mohan (former ICANN Board member) are executives at Afilias (owned by/related to Donuts/Identity Digital); DotAsia Organisation, of which former Board member Edmon Chung is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, contracts with Identity Digital to provide backend registry services; DotAsia and Afilias/Identity Digital have a stake in Global Website Asia Ltd. and Global Website TLD Asia Ltd.
  10. Wes Hardaker – RSSAC Liaison: Root Server Operator; Senior Computer Scientist for the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute; Board member of the Internet Architecture Board which is a leadership body affiliated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
  11. Christian Kaufmann - Director: Nothing identified.
  12. David Lawrence – IETF Liaison: Software engineering architect at Salesforce; Co-chair of "add" working group of IETF; town representative to Board of CVFiber.
  13. Kurt Erik "Kurtis" Lindqvist – Director: Owner of Internet Technology Advisors. (Also listed as an Officer above).
  14. Patricio Poblete – Director: Director (CEO) of NIC Chile, the ccTLD manager for .CL. NIC Chile is a center of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile; NIC Chile makes an annual voluntary contribution to ICANN in accordance with ccNSO guidelines.
  15. Sajid Rahman – Director: Nothing identified.
  16. León Felipe Sánchez Ambia – Director: Board member of TrustNet de México, which is an IT vendor.
  17. Miriam Sapiro – Director: Nothing identified.
  18. Amitabh Singhal – Director: Promoter Director at Telxess Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd., a telecom/Internet/IT consulting service; Board member of Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF).
  19. Tripti Sinha – Director (Chair): Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, as well as Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, at University of Maryland and responsible for operations of DNS root services (d-root); Trustee of University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (Internet2); Director and former Chair of Quilt, Inc., an Internet and cyber infrastructure for U.S. research and education.

1 Note that the activities of ICANN itself are not listed in this document, which is intended to include items of interest covering the past 12 months through the present.